Author: Ally CarterSeries: Gallagher Girls, Book 5Publisher: LothianStar Rating: 5/5Date Read: January 19th to 21st, 2014Read Count: 1Review:I have reached the point where I stop rereading the Gallagher Girls and am simply reading the last two books for the first time. Frankly I cannot remember why I stopped and I curse my laziness.

Cammie wakes up in a convent in Austria, four months after leaving her friends, her mother, her sort-of boyfriend and her school behind in an attempt to keep those she loves safe. The ancient terrorist organisation, the Circle of Cavan, wants something from her. She goes into hiding – only when she wakes up in Austria, injured and weak, she can’t remember how she got there. In fact, she can’t remember anything after leaving the Gallagher Academy. Where did she go? What did she do? And why won’t anyone tell her what’s going on?

This has been my favourite Gallagher Girls novel to date. Full of action and an intense plotline, I realised that my favourite Gallagher Girls have come a long way from the four girls who conducted surveillance on a boy in town to see if he liked Cammie. In the midst of their senior year, they learn what it’s like to become real operatives, rather than just spies-in-training. The problem with that is if you screw up – you’re dead.

Through these books, I’ve felt a connection with Cammie that I didn’t quite feel with the other girls (though I love them too!). Maybe it’s because we see the world from Cammie’s point of view, but I felt so deeply for her through everything she was dealing with. The fear of what she might have said or done in those months she can’t remember, the knowledge that she may now be a threat and the feeling that she may still be putting everyone she loves at risk. Add that to the fact that she still doesn’t know why the Circle wanted her so badly, and the pressure of senior year at a spy academy – needless to say Cammie has a lot going on. You could feel it getting to her. She’s so exhausted by it all and she’s barely even started. Yet she’s handled herself remarkably well considering the circumstances. She is a beautifully written character who feels very real. Cammie is just someone who can endure.

And it’s not over yet.

Find my review of Book 1 of this series, I’d Tell You I Love You But Then I’d Have To Kill You, here.Find my review of Book 2 of this series, Cross My Heart and Hope To Spy, here.
Find my review of Book 3 of this series, Don’t Judge A Girl By Her Cover, here.
Find my review of Book 4 of this series, Only The Good Spy Young, here.Find my review of Book 6 of this series, United We Spy, here.